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[mMiniImManN]

So i see that its p965 boards that might be the cause of the problem.
Is there anyone succesfully installed osx on a 965 board?
If so what is the exact configuration?

From what I'm reading on Linux forums, the JMicron controller must be disabled, and then to use another port other than the IDE and SATA that goes along with it (use of a IDE to SATA works)....
I'm thinking I may hook up my OS to my 9th SATA port, and do a hookey pokey IDE to SATA to my eSATA for my burner... yay... :s

As far as AHCI, I don't know quite yet, I'm prety sure I tried that and it still had failed....
Although, I did take my os x 10.4.6 installed on a IDE hdd out of my ASUS board and stuck it into my 965 board, I did manage to get darwin going, but it errored out on the firewire or usb something or another...
I think its cuz the asus board didnt have soemthing insatlled and mine did... heh, we'll find out...

Geez, i cant wait till monday (ugh, never thought i'd say that)

[ceynox]

Well, my problem is a bit different since i got a laptop, i don't think i got that JMicron controller since i got Ubuntu and SuSE Linux running great...
btw, I can't configure anything in the bios regarding to AHCI or something...

Are there any other solutions next to installing from VMWare???

[MichielM]

Hit Enter several times before this message appears (ea. after the BIOS POST)..

[ceynox]

If you mean i should get the "F8" menu, where i can select verbose mode,
I only get to the option called "Intel PXE Network" or something, after i press enter i still get the same error...

[Rammjet]

"Intel PXE Network" sounds like a BIOS message. Try to press F8 right after you hit Enter from the "Intel PXE Network" message.

When OSX boots, first the screen turns black then grey with a spinning icon. As soon as the screen turns black (after you hit Enter), start tapping the F8 key quickly and repeatedly until a command prompt appears. Type -v at the prompt.

[souled]

I'm not so sure an IDE to SATA converter will work for the DVD drive. In VMWare, I used a virtual drive to boot the image from and I still got the same error.

I also tried loading from the image on my hdd (rather than enabling a dvd drive) and still the error occurred.

[megavolkan]

"Intel PXE Network" sounds like a BIOS message. Try to press F8 right after you hit Enter from the "Intel PXE Network" message.

Its not a BIOS message, 'Intel PXE Network' thing is just a choice that you should choose out of a boot location list of OSX installation. And that is something that comes after you press F8.

My opinion is OSX installer doesn't recognize the right boot sector of Installer disc. Maybe this is the problem that must be fixed. And i believe we can do it in the command console (or Darwin) by entering some sort of command which tells the installer where to start booting on the OSX DVD.

Any suggestion what could that be?

[megavolkan]

By the way, has anyone tried installing from a external USB DVD or something like that? Any success?

[guyin916]

i found out that my dvd drive in my laptop was not compatible with booting. i plugged the hard drive into another laptop and installed osx86 there and slapped it back in mine. the drive still works in osx86 with no problems with patchburn3

[souled]

i found out that my dvd drive in my laptop was not compatible with booting. i plugged the hard drive into another laptop and installed osx86 there and slapped it back in mine. the drive still works in osx86 with no problems with patchburn3

Did your laptop hdd have Windows on it first? Can you really install the operating system on one computer and then put it in a different computer? Doesn't the install keep a blueprint like thing of the system, so you aren't able to just put it in something else?

I tried using a different dvd rom, but that didn't help. However, if installing the OS on another system works, that could be a possibility for me. I don't really understand how it could really work, though.

[guyin916]

Did your laptop hdd have Windows on it first? Can you really install the operating system on one computer and then put it in a different computer? Doesn't the install keep a blueprint like thing of the system, so you aren't able to just put it in something else?

I tried using a different dvd rom, but that didn't help. However, if installing the OS on another system works, that could be a possibility for me. I don't really understand how it could really work, though.

i used my dad's ibm thinkpad (855 chipset w/ ati graphics).. i think by default all drivers are installed.. my laptop is a lenovo 3000 c100. it has a 915 chipset. so it's not a controller issue. i suppose if you installed the base os on a similar chipset system, you should be find unless it's a controller issue. i have an xp-osx dual boot using chain0 method cuz i don't like acronis.... i plan to overhaul the install though. i cloned the hd to a 100gb from a 40gb. i might want a bigger osx86 partition now. we'll see.

[mMiniImManN]

Well, I finally got my mobo in the mail and my coputer setup (took sooo long, but wiring is killer).
Anyways, I've been fidgeting with the bios and trying to get the dvd to boot... still no luck.

By the way, has anyone tried installing from a external USB DVD or something like that? Any success?

I've decided to test this out, but alas, it still gave the file missing error, even in both scenerios with the JMicron controller enabled and disabled..

I tried fiddeling with the AHCI for the jmicron.. still nothing, and I even tried swapping to another dvd burner from my other older box that mac isntalled on.. still no go, file missing errors galore

As far as the IDE to SATA goes, I've not made it to the store, and probably won't for some time (kinda lazy like that). If anybody wants to try this, please do and inform us how it goes.


Oh, I also think that once it's intalled to a drive using the JMicron controller, the OS will boot fine; the older mac os I had loaded from my other box starts to boot, but then errors out on some firewire stuff, no matter if I enable or disable the onboard firewire hmpf.


Does anybody have a P965 motherboard that has an onboard boot menu feature (common in laptops, according to the abit "techie")? I'm curious if this method would get around the file missing like it did in my other board.

Also, I know the BIOS in my board is still one the one that's out, but am still curious if the update might fix it; if anybody has an Abit AB9 Pro and gets teh bios 14 working, let me know
[I think I'll resort to calling the abit tech line and 'guiding' me through it, so if the board flakes on me again I can blame them :s]

"Intel PXE Network" sounds like a BIOS message. Try to press F8 right after you hit Enter from the "Intel PXE Network" message.

When OSX boots, first the screen turns black then grey with a spinning icon. As soon as the screen turns black (after you hit Enter), start tapping the F8 key quickly and repeatedly until a command prompt appears. Type -v at the prompt.

I don't know if you know Rammjet, but I must say, I think it's a problem with the Darwin loader, it doesn't get to the GUI of OSX when it gives the file missing error... Which leads me to my next question: Does the OSX isnatll DVD have to be HFS+ partitioned? Could it not be another format? And if it could, couldn't the disk be compiled so the bios could recognize everything on there?

Hmm, I guess I'll test this as I'm anxious to figure this out

[megavolkan]

Any success with a SATA drive so far? Anyone?

Or are we stuck to the all IDE dirves. Has anyone got a MSI P965 Neo mobo and OSX86 installed?

[mMiniImManN]

Any success with a SATA drive so far? Anyone?

Or are we stuck to the all IDE dirves. Has anyone got a MSI P965 Neo mobo and OSX86 installed?

I tried installing to a SATA with the JMicron controller disabled, and booting from my converted usb dvdrom.. and tried 2 different burners, still failed...

And should be any p695 shouldnt it? Currently, I've isntalled win and going to try via vmware.. hope that works

[souled]

Hmm... I'm not so sure it's the JMicron controller. I've searched around a little bit and there are a bunch of people that share the same mobo as me (P5W DH Deluxe) that have successfully installed Mac OS. On the HCL list, it doesn't mention anything about the JMicron controller either. This is leading me to believe it's something els... I just don't know what.

EDIT: I found a solution!!! At least a solution that works for me. On my mobo, I have 2 IDE ports. One is the JMicron one, and the other is the ICH7R (I think that's what it is.) I read elsewhere that when turning on AHCI, you have to plug in the DVD-rom in the ICH7R port. I thought I did this but I guess not. This is why when I put it on AHCI last time I didn't see my DVD-rom. Well I switched it to the ICH7R port and turned on AHCI, and it works! I'm installing it this very moment. Hope this helps!

[mMiniImManN]

Ah, interseting souled.. sadly, my mobo only has one IDE controller and is by the JMicron controller as well as 2 SATA ports... Hmm, I wonder if a PCI - IDE card would fix the issue, I got one laying around, I'll test that this minute.

And your solution is supporting that it is indeed the JMicron controller; something about it and Disc devices don't work (try booting into a Win9x DOS floppy with cd-rom support, fails miserably.. ) Although, booting to mac from on a JMicron IDE controller is possible, by what I've seen my old one do (cept it errored on firewire like I mentioned earlier).

Well, I'll see if the IDE-PCI card work, I'll letcha all know of course

EDIT: Well, seems this will take a bit longer than I thought, the my dvd burner isn't recognized on this damn card I have, dunno if its bum IDE cables or something, be another 30 mins or so, gonna go on IDE cable hunt. :s

EDIT2: Hmpf, still no go on my card, windows recognizes the card, can't find a x64bit driver but only looked for about 2 secs.. and SATA plugged into it (its a 2 port sata and 1 port ide to pci card) doesn't get recognized, so thinking either card is in bad pci or bios conflicting... or, maybe i shutdown my good box and test a working card? If I don't doze off again, I'll be puttin results in faster than this last time... ;P

Err, ok, so I figured it out; I had unplugged the sata drive's power from the main power channel, ( i knew that was simple ) but the cdrom still failed... from the online manual "The card does not support ATAPI devices such
as Zip drives or CD/DVD drives." Well isn't that lovely?? I guess I'll deal with another pci-ide card tomarrow, just a matter of switching off my main computer... i'd rahter not though.


Anybody try the IDE - SATA method yet with a DVD Burner/Rom?

[megavolkan]

Man What a mess! Why doesn't it just simply work?
I started thinkin' to return my old p865 box, all was just flawlessly working...

[mMiniImManN]

Yea, i agree man, still only got my theories myself...

Has any of you tried booting from an old DOS 9x boot floppy with CD-Rom support?
I'm sure it will fail for anybody using the DVD Rom on the jmicron controller... I'm about to order one of those IDE to SATA connectors (18 bucks with shipping via newegg.com).

BTW, i successfully (yea, what a concept for this board) upgraded my BIOS to a modded newest version... still didn't make the thing work. I'm also thinking, since it's the open darwin that can't find the file, would it not be a driver issue with open darwin? Arg, I wish I knew how to make my own drivers.... I'm gonna play around with the open darwin boot disk and try to fiddle away.

Oh ya, I almost got to test the install via vmware but msUpdate rendered my registry corrupt.. so I get to reinstall, YAY!! (oh, besides the fact my hdd sounds like an ewok...)
I'll letcha know how well it boots into mac os using that ide channel tomarrow sometime

EDIT:
lol, megavolkan, I think its just you and me that's having this stubborn problem and glad to hear you're stubborn like me in tring to get it to boot without having to do the win step inbetween although, I think the ide-sata method will work, going to order that right now, should be here next tuesday (i'll expect it wednesday)

[megavolkan]

Yeah buddy (mMiniImManN ) i'm stubborn because i updated my system for a great gaming experience under windows and with high hopes on the osx86 side.

If the ide to sata thingy works well i might think getting one of those
Waiting for tuesday come...

[mMiniImManN]

Thought I'd add in, booting with just the Open Darwin cd, gives me an error right as fast as the osX setup does:

"/System.config/Default.table" not found


hmm, I swear it didn't error on my asus board, I'll check it tomarrow morning. [Just tried the disk in VMWare on this old box of mine, it actually boots till my comp can't handle it]. So, I think it's a problem with the darwin loader conflicting with the jmicron ide controller? Perhaps maybe, jsut maybe it's a simple driver issue with darwin?
Edit: Er, i meant to say, I think darwin has a problem with cd-devices on this jmicron cotroller, or at least the ver of it that we have

be interesting, if there was a way to load a driver on there and test it....